D'APRÈS ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) ANDY WARHOL / INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, BOSTON. 1966.
33 3/4x21 3/4 inches, 85 3/4x55 1/4 cm.
Condition A-: minor creases and abrasions at edges; pin holes in corners. Silkscreen. Paper.
Following an article in Time magazine on American Pop in which he was featured, Warhol's first solo show of Pop paintings was at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, in 1962. His first solo show in New York City was later that year at the Stable Gallery. The following years, with the burgeoning interest in Pop Art, saw his paintings included in group shows at such venerated institutions as the Pasadena Art Museum, Sidney Janis Gallery, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery (in Paris), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the Leo Castelli Gallery. Towards the end of 1965, his first solo museum show was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. That opening has entered into Art History legend as Warhol and Edie Sedgwick and others in his retinue had to flee the scene as the crowd had become so large and unruly. His second solo museum show was the following year at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston. In conjunction with this exhibition, the Institute published the renowned Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato) on a shopping bag. For the poster, the museum employs the same image used by Leo Castelli earlier that year for a Warhol show in April, it is a self-portrait based on a photograph taken by Rudolph Burkhardt. Curiously, the museum credits the photographer with the image, despite the fact that Warhol refers to it as a self-portrait. rare.